so i started a survival map on my xbox a while ago....maybe 4 weeks ago maybe 5....i read that there has been an update and now the worlds spawn with npc villages and strongholds and stuff and i was wondering if my survival map was made on the current version....how can i find out.....im new to the mine craft so this may be a stupid question but i could sure use some help....btw i am now obsessed with this game...lol...thanks for the help guys...
If you created a world before 1.8.2 and fully explored it then it will not have npc villages, ravines, strongholds, abandoned mineshafts, swamps and the new terrain. If you didn't fully explore it then the chunks you didn't explore will have the new terrain and the possibility of the new structures.
If you created a world before 1.8.2 and fully explored it then it will not have npc villages, ravines, strongholds, abandoned mineshafts, swamps and the new terrain. If you didn't fully explore it then the chunks you didn't explore will have the new terrain and the possibility of the new structures.
Yes, this person is completely right. Also, that was not a "stupid" question, we all have to learn it at some time or another.
If I'm reading your question correctly, it's that you're uncertain whether you started this world before or after the 1.8.2 update. The simplest way I can think of to check is to start another world today using the same seed number string as would be displayed in the load up screen of the world you're unsure of. Then when you spawn in the new world, check the coordinates and look around at the terrain. Then, exit that world and enter the older world that you're unsure about. Head to those exact same coordinates and have look around. If you haven't manually changed the terrain (by building in that area) and if it looks the same as the world you just created, then you must have created your older world after the 1.8.2 update. If it looks different (and you haven't manually changed it), then you must have created your older world before the update took effect.
As others have said, if you have not explored your whole world, then the terrrain being uploaded as you explore it will be the post-1.8.2 terrain regardless of when the world was first created. Quite often, you will then see abrupt (square) changes in the terrain where previously unexplored chunks are adjacent to chunks that were explored prior to the update. Spotting these abrupt changes is also a giveaway that you have a world that was created but only partially explored before the update. These partially explored worlds would have a chance of spawning NPC villages, strongholds, mineshafts, extreme hills, swamps, or ravines in those unexplored areas; but there is no guarantee of it.
If a world created before the update was fully explored before the update took effect, the terrain would not change at all and there would be no chance of such worlds having generated any 1.8.2 terrain in them.
Yes, this person is completely right. Also, that was not a "stupid" question, we all have to learn it at some time or another.
As others have said, if you have not explored your whole world, then the terrrain being uploaded as you explore it will be the post-1.8.2 terrain regardless of when the world was first created. Quite often, you will then see abrupt (square) changes in the terrain where previously unexplored chunks are adjacent to chunks that were explored prior to the update. Spotting these abrupt changes is also a giveaway that you have a world that was created but only partially explored before the update. These partially explored worlds would have a chance of spawning NPC villages, strongholds, mineshafts, extreme hills, swamps, or ravines in those unexplored areas; but there is no guarantee of it.
If a world created before the update was fully explored before the update took effect, the terrain would not change at all and there would be no chance of such worlds having generated any 1.8.2 terrain in them.
If your XBox was connected online and tied into Live and you started Minecraft, it updated automatically.
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